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in many such cases do distorters of Marxism mock actual or attempts at Socialism
Blanket analysis hidden behind ‘criticism’ attempting to persuade other communist to accept their worldview, all when the proletariat of Cuba desperately needs our solidarity and support despite-
Blanket analysis hidden behind ‘criticism’ attempting to persuade other communist to accept their worldview, all when the proletariat of Cuba desperately needs our solidarity and support despite-
your thoughts or analysis about their government, we can critically support Cuba in their struggle against imperialism. Some critiques are actually valid but there’s a time and place. Using the suffering of the Cuban proletariat as an example/attempt to ‘critique the government’
only stokes the embers of the imperialist propaganda machine.
to publicly and continuously attack Cuba and doubling down as an attempt to be more “principled” is peak performative virtue signaling. It’s good to be principled-
to publicly and continuously attack Cuba and doubling down as an attempt to be more “principled” is peak performative virtue signaling. It’s good to be principled-
This Julia Cagé paper changed my priors a bit on wealth taxes, at least from a behavioral and governance perspective. A key distinction is that wealth is a stock. While political influence operates through flows: campaign donations, lobbying, philantophy, media financing, etc./1
Wealth concentration can *obviously* make those flows easier to sustain. Wealthy donors can redirect political activity, lobbying, or philanthropy in ways that shape the policy environment in their favor (ie. Musk in this administration). That's public choice 101:/2
Exchanging today's political spending for future rents in t+1... and so on.
As @VincentGeloso said, the mapping from wealth concentration ->political capture is not mechanical. Donor influence, rent-seeking and regulatory privileges are conditional on institutional design./3
As @VincentGeloso said, the mapping from wealth concentration ->political capture is not mechanical. Donor influence, rent-seeking and regulatory privileges are conditional on institutional design./3
Khushu isn’t built inside salah. It’s built in the 5 minutes before it.
Most people rush into prayer from noise, scrolling, talking, thinking… then wonder why their heart doesn’t settle.
Then you expect khushu. But your heart is still carrying the world you just came from.
Try this 5-minute pre-salah reset:
Then you expect khushu. But your heart is still carrying the world you just came from.
Try this 5-minute pre-salah reset:
Minute 1: Phone away (physically)
Not face-down. Not in your pocket. Out of the room or in a drawer.
If it’s near you, part of your mind stays with it.
Not face-down. Not in your pocket. Out of the room or in a drawer.
If it’s near you, part of your mind stays with it.
Most Muslims are wasting the barakah after Fajr.
You wake up for Fajr.
Then:
Prayer → phone → scroll → back to sleep → groggy morning.
And the most blessed part of your morning is gone.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“O Allah, bless my Ummah in their early mornings.”
Then:
Prayer → phone → scroll → back to sleep → groggy morning.
And the most blessed part of your morning is gone.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“O Allah, bless my Ummah in their early mornings.”
Protect the first 30 minutes after Fajr:
• 5 min: Dhikr & istighfar
• 10 min: Qur’an
• 15 min: Morning adhkar & dua
No phone. No noise.
Just barakah.
The Muslim who wins Fajr but loses what comes after it is leaving a lot on the table.
• 5 min: Dhikr & istighfar
• 10 min: Qur’an
• 15 min: Morning adhkar & dua
No phone. No noise.
Just barakah.
The Muslim who wins Fajr but loses what comes after it is leaving a lot on the table.
I dunno I have this excel sheet with the reading lists of 10 different programs that I gathered over the last decade and while there are always some surprises there is more homogeneity than diversity.
This is particularly true in terms of broad genre: philosophy, novels, and epic poetry are the main vehicles.
At the expense of other types of poetry, history, oratory, essays, memoirs, and biography.
At the expense of other types of poetry, history, oratory, essays, memoirs, and biography.
The bit about the Greeks over the Romans and early Germanic literature is also generally true.
As is unwillingness to include more recent (read: post 1945) works of social science.
As is unwillingness to include more recent (read: post 1945) works of social science.
@CharlesMullins2 Deterministic laws produce effectively unpredictable outcomes due to sensitivity to initial conditions.
Re: “uncertainty coexisting with determinism”, the system behaves deterministically, yet finite observation yields incomplete knowledge, effectively creating uncertainty.
Re: “uncertainty coexisting with determinism”, the system behaves deterministically, yet finite observation yields incomplete knowledge, effectively creating uncertainty.
@CharlesMullins2 Coexistence of determinism & uncertainty in physical systems:
Mirrored in the context of irrational numbers like π & golden mean.
Mathematics deterministically defines them, yet their non-repeating, infinite expansions introduce epistemic “uncertainty” in practical terms.
Mirrored in the context of irrational numbers like π & golden mean.
Mathematics deterministically defines them, yet their non-repeating, infinite expansions introduce epistemic “uncertainty” in practical terms.
@CharlesMullins2 Golden mean (ϕ): associated with quasi-periodic & chaotic dynamics (circle maps).
Irrational rotation number leads to non-repeating trajectories: deterministic, non-repeating.
π commonly appears in trigonometric functions, Fourier series, and wave phenomena. Uncertain if cut.
Irrational rotation number leads to non-repeating trajectories: deterministic, non-repeating.
π commonly appears in trigonometric functions, Fourier series, and wave phenomena. Uncertain if cut.
I represented @DeptofWar yesterday at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Our policy has been to encourage and enable Europe to take the lead in supporting Ukraine, and that that shift would be consistent with Ukraine's self-defense. That policy is working and we are leaning forward to continue it. 🧵 1/
“From the beginning of last year, this Administration has contended that Europe could and would take the leading role in providing for its conventional defense, including by providing the great bulk of support for Ukraine, and that such an approach would be consistent with a viable Ukrainian defense. We regard this policy as having been borne out.” 2/
“In the past year, European allies have taken the leading role in supporting Ukraine's defense, assuming the responsibility for the financial support of Ukraine as well as providing their own arms to Ukraine.” 3/
Before he was an astronaut. Before he orbited the Earth. Before he was a senator.
He was a Marine fighter pilot so aggressive, so willing to dive into enemy fire to hit his target, that he kept coming home with hundreds of holes in his jet.
His squadron joked he must have a magnet in his backside.
They called him Magnet Ass.
This is the story of John Glenn..🧵1/4
He was a Marine fighter pilot so aggressive, so willing to dive into enemy fire to hit his target, that he kept coming home with hundreds of holes in his jet.
His squadron joked he must have a magnet in his backside.
They called him Magnet Ass.
This is the story of John Glenn..🧵1/4
🧵 2/4
John Glenn left college after Pearl Harbor and became a Marine aviator, earning his wings in 1943. He flew 59 combat missions in the Pacific during the Second World War, attacking Japanese positions across the islands.
But it was Korea where his reputation as a pilot was made.
In February 1953 he joined Marine Fighter Squadron 311, flying the F9F Panther jet on low-level close air support missions, diving down to hammer enemy positions while every gun on the ground fired back at him. He flew so low and pressed his attacks so hard that he kept coming home with his aircraft riddled by bullets and shrapnel.
His squadron mates joked that he must have a magnet in his rear end, the way he attracted enemy fire. The nickname stuck. Magnet Ass Glenn.
One of his aircraft was later photographed with more than 700 holes torn in it from shrapnel. He flew 63 missions in Korea this way, and kept going back up.
John Glenn left college after Pearl Harbor and became a Marine aviator, earning his wings in 1943. He flew 59 combat missions in the Pacific during the Second World War, attacking Japanese positions across the islands.
But it was Korea where his reputation as a pilot was made.
In February 1953 he joined Marine Fighter Squadron 311, flying the F9F Panther jet on low-level close air support missions, diving down to hammer enemy positions while every gun on the ground fired back at him. He flew so low and pressed his attacks so hard that he kept coming home with his aircraft riddled by bullets and shrapnel.
His squadron mates joked that he must have a magnet in his rear end, the way he attracted enemy fire. The nickname stuck. Magnet Ass Glenn.
One of his aircraft was later photographed with more than 700 holes torn in it from shrapnel. He flew 63 missions in Korea this way, and kept going back up.
🧵 3/4
One of the men who flew on Glenn's wing in Korea was a Marine reservist named Ted Williams, the Boston Red Sox slugger and one of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball, pulled out of his career to fly combat jets.
Williams later said of Glenn, "Absolutely fearless. The best I ever saw. It was an honor to fly with him." The two stayed friends for the rest of their lives.
In the closing weeks of the war, Glenn got himself transferred to an Air Force squadron flying the F-86 Sabre, hunting enemy MiG fighters in the deadly stretch of sky known as MiG Alley. He painted "MiG Mad Marine" on his jet and flew 27 more missions.
In the last nine days of the Korean War, John Glenn shot down three MiG-15s in air-to-air combat. The final kill came less than a week before the guns fell silent.
Across two wars he flew 149 combat missions, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross six times, and was awarded 18 Air Medals.
One of the men who flew on Glenn's wing in Korea was a Marine reservist named Ted Williams, the Boston Red Sox slugger and one of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball, pulled out of his career to fly combat jets.
Williams later said of Glenn, "Absolutely fearless. The best I ever saw. It was an honor to fly with him." The two stayed friends for the rest of their lives.
In the closing weeks of the war, Glenn got himself transferred to an Air Force squadron flying the F-86 Sabre, hunting enemy MiG fighters in the deadly stretch of sky known as MiG Alley. He painted "MiG Mad Marine" on his jet and flew 27 more missions.
In the last nine days of the Korean War, John Glenn shot down three MiG-15s in air-to-air combat. The final kill came less than a week before the guns fell silent.
Across two wars he flew 149 combat missions, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross six times, and was awarded 18 Air Medals.
The BLUF of every missile based integrated air defense is the number of missiles and launcher reload times are known.
Winning a saturation attack against one is simple arithmetic, total all the defending missiles, then +10 more drones above that number.
1/2
Winning a saturation attack against one is simple arithmetic, total all the defending missiles, then +10 more drones above that number.
1/2
Electronic warfare is always a "saving throw" with an expiration date for the defense.
Plus no one in the world, since 1989, has invested in enough mobile guns for robust AA-combined arms to screw up the simple arithmetic of a saturation drone/missile attacks.
2/
Plus no one in the world, since 1989, has invested in enough mobile guns for robust AA-combined arms to screw up the simple arithmetic of a saturation drone/missile attacks.
2/
Russia burned out Ukraine's considerable stocks of 5V55 SAMs (~3,300 rounds), 9M83 SAMs (~1,000) and 9M38 SAMs (~800) by repeat saturation attacks.
Ukraine returns the favor. This is not that difficult to grasp.
Saturation attacks were central to legacy Soviet doctrine.
3/
Ukraine returns the favor. This is not that difficult to grasp.
Saturation attacks were central to legacy Soviet doctrine.
3/
Spent more time cleaning PDF output than building the actual AI workflow.
So I tested @nutrientdocs PDF-to-Markdown CLI.
Here's what happened ↓
So I tested @nutrientdocs PDF-to-Markdown CLI.
Here's what happened ↓
If you're building with RAG, AI agents, or knowledge bases, you've probably hit the same problem:
PDFs are full of messy layouts, broken tables, and formatting issues.
Before feeding documents into an LLM, you usually spend time cleaning everything manually.
PDFs are full of messy layouts, broken tables, and formatting issues.
Before feeding documents into an LLM, you usually spend time cleaning everything manually.
I tried @nutrientdocs PDF-to-Markdown CLI to see how well it handles the conversion process.
The tool takes a PDF and converts it into structured Markdown that's much easier for:
• RAG pipelines
• LLM ingestion
• Documentation systems
• AI workflows
No complicated setup required.
The tool takes a PDF and converts it into structured Markdown that's much easier for:
• RAG pipelines
• LLM ingestion
• Documentation systems
• AI workflows
No complicated setup required.
1/ Russian warbloggers have identified a new enemy in the aftermath of the Ukrainian drone attacks in Moscow: migrants, who have appeared in many videos of the strikes. They are calling for severe punishments of those who have violated the government's censorship regulations. ⬇️
2/ One of the most iconic videos from the attack, showing a fuel storage tank's lid being thrown high in the air by an explosion, was filmed by a Chinese migrant worker and posted on his TikTok channel.
3/ 'Pozdnyakov' is indignant about this:
"Migrants from fraternal China published a video of a surface-to-air missile (or a MANPADS missile) hitting a storage tank at a Moscow oil refinery. Now the footage is spreading across Chinese and global social media."
"Migrants from fraternal China published a video of a surface-to-air missile (or a MANPADS missile) hitting a storage tank at a Moscow oil refinery. Now the footage is spreading across Chinese and global social media."
"Children receiving steroids were more likely to receive a U09.9 ICD-10 diagnosis code for PASC compared with those not receiving steroids (HR: 2.65; 95% CI: [1.61–4.37], p < 0.01)."
Steroids aggravate persistent SARS.
We knew this 20 years ago but doing research on kids is fun?
Steroids aggravate persistent SARS.
We knew this 20 years ago but doing research on kids is fun?
Prolonged T-cell activation leading to T-Cell exhaustion? Tell us again how #LongCOVID is not #AirborneAIDS so #WearN95
This is a phenomenal research article by the way. If you really want to understand the dynamics of multiple viral infections, plus SARS, laying waste to mitochondria.
